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Ganesha and the Gods Shiva, Parvati, and Vishnu
Kangra painting, circa 1800
(Image source: Walters Art Museum)

From the Museum site: The god Ganesha is depicted as if he were an Indian ruler, with portable tent held above him and rich carpet underneath. At upper left is Ganesha's father Shiva, and his mother Parvati sits at upper right. The god Vishnu appears at lower left. The fourth figure, at lower right, is a devotee of some sort-perhaps the author of the text that this illustration might have accompanied.

The Wikipedia source identifies the fourth figure as Surya (?).

Detail:

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Ganesha Temple
(Haputale, Sri Lanka)

You can learn more about Ganesha at Wikipedia.

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Ganesha
early 19th century
(British Museum)

Image: Ganesha, Saraswati and Shiva in Japan

Benzaiten, Kangiten and Bishamonten

Daishō-in Temple

(Wikimedia)

For more about Ganesha as Kangiten, Saraswati as Benzaiten and Shiva as Daikokuten in Japan see Wikipedia, and also more about Daisho-in Temple.

Image: Shiva, Parvati and Family

Shiva, Parvati and family

mid-late 19th Century

(Sotheby's)

More information from the Sotheby's website:
This tender domestic portrait depicts Shiva and Parvati seated under the shady canopy of a banyan tree atop their heavenly abode of Mount Kailasa. Shiva pours water from his golden kalasha through a sieve held by Parvati. Ganesha, the apple of his mother's eye, sits at her feet while his elder brother Skanda dutifully stands in attendance at right with a fly-whisk in his hand.
India, Rajasthan, possibly Kota.

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Ganesha with two consorts,
Riddhi (prosperity) and Siddhi (spiritual power)

(print by Raja Ravi Varma)

Find out more about Ganesha and his consorts at Wikipedia.

Image: Ganesha at the Lakshmana Temple

Ganesha
(Wikimedia)

The Lakshmana Temple in Khajuraho, India, is a World Heritage site, and you can read more about Ganesha at Wikipedia.

Image: Vyasa and Ganesha

Vyasa and Ganesha.
17th century, Rajasthan
(MFA Boston)

You can see Vyasa petitioning Ganesha to be his scribe, and then in the lower left you can see Ganesha writing as Vyasa dictates the Mahabharata to him. Find out more about Ganesha and Vyasa at Wikipedia.

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Ganesha Graffiti

Graffiti en el barrio del Raval de Barcelona.
(Wikimedia)

Icons of the modern world: Che and Ganesha!

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Dancing Ganesha

India, Uttar Pradesh; 10th century

(Walters Art Museum)

From the Museum site: Ganesha, lord of beginnings and remover of obstacles, dances as two musicians keep rhythm on their drums. He holds many attributes associated with his father, the Hindu god Shiva: a snake held triumphantly above his head, a battle-axe and rosary in two of his right hands, and a trident in one of his left hands. The bowl of sweets is his own: taking one with his trunk, he fills his corpulent belly with the sugary cakes. According to one story, Ganesha once ate so many sweets that his stomach burst open. Seeing this, the moon began to laugh and in a fit of anger Ganesha tore off one of his own tusks and threw it at his offender. It is for this reason that Ganesha has only one tusk. This sculpture once would have adorned the wall of a temple. When devotees circumambulated the temple (walked around it in reverence), they are likely to have seen Ganesha before the other deities on the temple’s walls, honoring the lord of beginnings at the outset of their visit.

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Ravana shaking Mount Kailash,
with Shiva and his family on top

(National Museum of Delhi)

Ravana wants to take Kailash with him back to Lanka, along with Shiva and his family. They can feel the mountain shaking as you can see here, and Ganesha has gone to investigate. Shiva will put a stop to Ravana's efforts.

More at Wikipedia: Ravananugraha;

Ravana shakes Mount Kailash

where Shiva and Parvati are sitting.

Image: Ganesha with mantra and yantra

Ganesha and Mushika

along with mantra and yantra,

late 19th century.

(The Calico Museum of Textiles)

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Image source: Ganesha Chaturthi.
You can read more about this holiday at Wikipedia.

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